Particle refers to a graphics technique that uses a large number of very small sprites or other graphic objects to simulate certain kinds of "fuzzy" structures like fire, explosions, etc.
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How to obtain contrail visual effect?
I have objects moving in OpenGL ES1 application. I want some of them to leave behind contrail – like if they would emit some radiation or something.
EDIT: the kind of contrail is:
light contrail – ...
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Cascade(Waterfalls) particles animation - openframeworks, alternatives
Has anyone tried to create a waterfall particles animation using openframeworks? Is it possible? Is it good?
If not, can you recommend any other frameworks for easier creation of cascade animation?
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How does one avoid hundreds of copies into a vertex buffer each frame?
Assume a Direct3D9-based 2D game, high resolution, very busy. Performance critical.
A particle system has 2,000 particles. They are scattered throughout the world with only a subset visible on screen ...
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How to offset particles from point of origin
Hi I'm having troubles off setting particles from a point of origin. I want my particles to spread out after a certain radius from a the point of origin. For example, this is what I have right now:
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Creating thrusters on a ship in Unity3D
So, I'm using the legacy particle "small flames". Basically what I want it to do is always emit below the ship, so when the ship turns and such it still looks like the thrusters are firing.
I know ...
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How do I move a 3D particle using the Mercury particle engine?
I'm currently creating a 3D game with XNA, and I am in need of some particles.That's why I searched for a particle engine. I found Mercury, watched the tutorials and integrated it in the game.
But ...
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Black Screen: How to set Projection/View Matrix
I have a Windows Phone 8 C#/XAML with DirectX component project. I'm rendering some particles, but each particle is a rectangle versus a square (as I've set the vertices to be positions equally offset ...
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Unity Particle System collision detection problem
I'm using Unity 3.5.5f3 wich has the Shuriken particle system.
I've made a blood particle system based on Unity's demos. (Exploding paint [Blood])
The blood is flowing and when it collides with a ...
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Which should be faster: 10 flat shaded polygons or 2 with a transparent texture
I have particle system, and I want to the individual particles to take the shape of a star. Which should be faster: Drawing the 10 polygons using a flat shader, or 2 polygons (a square) with a ...
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How to implement explosion in OpenGL with a particle effect?
I'm relatively new to OpenGL and I'm clueless how to implement explosion. So could anyone give me some ideas how to start? Suppose the explosion occurs at location $(x, y, z)$, then I'm thinking of ...
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set TouchEvent to every particle in SpriteParticleSystem in andEngine livewallpaper
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I have working on andEngine Live wallpaper and I have use SpriteParticleSystem. I want to add touch event to every Sprite of SpriteParticleSystem and remove that sprite from scene.
I have use ...
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UDK ParticleSystem Problem
I use below code to create my particles ( in fact, I don't know any other way.)
spawnedParticleComponents = WorldInfo.MyEmitterPool.SpawnEmitter(ParticleSystem'ParticleName', Location, Rotator );
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How can I keep straight alpha during rendering particles?
Rencently,I was trying to save textures of 3D particles so that I can reuse the in 2D rendering.Now I had some problem with alpha channel.Some artist told me I that my textures should have ...
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Top down water view, cocos2d
Has anyone successfully created a top down view of a stream/river? I need to also work out how to make it look like a boat is cutting through the water.
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World Location issues with camera and particle
I have a bit of a strange question, I am adapting the existing code base including the tile engine as per the book: XNA 4.0 Game Development by example by Kurt Jaegers, particularly the aspect that I ...
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Is my particle system design good?
Recently I started designing a particle system for a game I develop. But I have some issues with it. I mean, it works but I have a feeling that my design isn't good enough.
So, basically I have a ...
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Can't Load Shaders [closed]
I have a Windows Phone 8 XAML with DirectX project. I have written some code to load textures and shaders to simulate a particle system. The particles render to the DrawingSurface XAML control. ...
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Libgdx Particle Editor: Blank UI elements
How can I get Libgdx Particle Editor to run properly on my 32-bit Windows 7 machine? When I run it, the UI elements are blank like this:
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2D Tile Based Particle Collisions
I have a basic 2D particle system and I'm now looking to implement collisions, however I'm not sure on what the best way to do it is. My game is tile based and runs in XNA Game Studio 4.0. I've seen ...
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Particles in XNA - can't get em to work
I am trying to have an explosion appear when a player lands on a mine. I checked out the particle example on the XNA website but it seemed to over complicate it a lot. So any simpler neater explosion ...
